Journal Club

From Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Contents 1 Sign up to lead a Journal Club Discussion! 1.1 Fall 2008 1.2 Spring 2008 1.3 Fall 2007 1.4 Spring 2007 1.5 Fall 2006 2 Suggestion list of "classic papers" for possible topics 2.1 Planetary wave propagation / teleconnections: 2.2 Remote sensing of aerosols: 2.3 Basic dynamics: 2.4 Surface flux/evapotranspiration: 3 How to put yourself on the Journal Club mailing list

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Fall 2008

• August 27: Organizational Meeting
• September 3: An Inconvenient Truth (Part 1)
• September 10: An Inconvenient Truth (Part 2)
• September 17: Yolanda Roberts (Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Hemispherical and regional variation in long-range transport, absorption, and radiative forcing , V. Ramanathan et. al.)
• September 24: Marcus van Lier-Walqui: "Vertical Structures of Precipitation in Cyclones Crossing the Oregon Cascades" by Socorro Medina, Ellen Sukovich and Robert A. Houze Jr.
• October 1: (tentative) Dave Porter (Vertical structure of recent Arctic warming , R. Graverson et. al.) and subsequent communications.
• October 8:Cassie Wheeler - Surface Radiative Fluxes and Cloud Cover Comparison amongst Reanlayses
• October 15: Tanya Philips - (Dangerous Assumptions , R. Pielke, Jr et al)
• October 22:Cassie Wheeler - An Overview of the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study
• October 29:
• November 5: Donavan Wheeler(not fully sure if I'll be able): No title yet, but the topic is Cold Air Outbreaks
• November 12: Keah Schuenemann Defense Practice: Analysis of the synoptic forcing of Greenland precipitation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• November 19:
• November 26: (Fall Break)
• December 3: Sam Dorsi
• December 10:

Spring 2008

• January 23: SIGN UP DAY
• January 30: Heather Walsh
• February 6: Jason English: "The Tragedy of the Commons": Peak Oil and Climate Change
• February 13: Yolanda Roberts: "Air Pollution Radiative Forcing from Specific Emissions Sectors at 2030" N. Unger et. al.
• February 20: Lars Kalnajs: Out on the Ice - 3 years of field science in Antarctica
• February 27: Sam Dorsi: The search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft
• March 5: Jamison Smith: "Teaching Science to the Rest of Us"
• March 12: Sean Davis
• March 19: Christa Hasenkopf - The surface of Titan and its organic inventory.
• March 26: (SPRING BREAK)
• April 2:
• April 9: Mark Seefeldt / Baylor Fox-Kemper - The Academic Job Search Process.
• April 16:
• April 23: Keah Schuenemann: Increased runoff from melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A response to global warming (Hanna et al. 2008, Journal of Climate)
• April 30: Joan Alexander: Venus Express updates on Venus atmosphere dynamics

Fall 2007

• September 5: SIGN UP DAY, Joan Alexander (Convective storms, internal waves, and transport)
• September 12: Tanya Phillips (Enhanced Upper Tropical Tropospheric COS: Impact on the Stratospheric Aerosol Layer, Notholt et al)
• September 19:Samantha Stevenson
• September 26: Jason English (Chen et al "Future climate impacts of direct radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols, tropospheric ozone, and long-lived greenhouse gases" )
• October 3: Tanya Phillips (Analysis of neutral temperature and composition in the thermosphere - Continued)
• October 10: Yolanda Roberts (TBA)
• October 17: Lin Su (Asian dust storm simulations by climate/microphysical model)
• October 24:
• October 31: Tianyi Fan (Zhu et al. Climate sensitivity of tropical and subtropical low cloud amount to ENSO and global warming due to doubled CO2)
• November 7:
• November 14: Mark Seefeldt (Preparing for an Academic Career - One Year Later)
• November 21: (THANKSGIVING WEEK)
• November 28:
• December 5: Jamie Smith (Climate Engineering)
• December 12: (Last day of classes Dec 14)

Spring 2007

• January 17: (Canceled)
• January 24: SIGN UP DAY
• January 31: Brian Seok (Randall et al Enhanced NOx in 2006 linked to strong upper stratospheric Arctic vortex)
• February 7: Sean Davis (IPCC)
• February 14: Jason English Verma et al, Sulfate Aerosols Forcing: An Estimate Using A Three-Dimensional Interactive Chemistry Scheme
• February 21: Charles Bardeen (Meteor dust)
• February 28: Marsha Fisher (Baettig et al, A climate change index: Where climate change may be most prominent in the 21st century)
• March 7: Lars Kalnajs (Cosmic Ray Influence on Cloud Formation and Climate - http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/fl9xqluwmj3ym6ypfmel/contributions/3/1/6/3/3163g817166673g7.pdf )
• March 14: Christa Hasenkopf (Early Earth: Hot or not? From Kasting et al., 2006 and Kasting et al., 2007)
• March 21: Jason English (IPCC TAR to AR4: Improvements in Aerosol Radiative Forcing)
• March 28: (Spring Break)
• April 4: Richard Urata (Mars) <-- ???
• April 11: Joan Alexander "Life on the Mississippi: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina & Rita"

Recommended reading: 1) Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi", 1883. 2) Day Jr., J.W. et al., Science, 315, 1679-1684, 2007. [1]

• April 18: Tianyi Fan "Is the local climate changed by the Three Gorges Dam Project?"
• April 25: Tanya Phillips (Analysis of Neutral Temperature and Composition using Models and ISR Observations)
• May 2: General meeting: Come and discuss plans for next year's club.

Fall 2006

• September 13: Matt Higgins Hinzman et al, Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions
• September 20: Josh McGrath Moore et al, Weather and Death on Mount Everest: An Analysis of the Into Thin Air Storm
• September 27: Lin Su Uno et al, Dust Model Intercomparison (DMIP) Study over Asia: Overview
• October 4: Tianyi Fan Clark et al, An ultrafine sea-salt flux from breaking waves: Implications for cloud condensation nuclei in the remote marine atmosphere
• October 11: Joan Alexander The summertime diurnal cycle of rainfall over the US Great Plains
• October 18: Susanne Benze Taguchi and Hartmann, Change in Occurrence Frequency of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings with ENSO-like SST Forcing as Simulated WACCM
• October 25: Mark Seefeldt Preparing for an Academic Career
• November 1: Lars Kalnajs Lightning produced tropospheric ozone - or not?
• November 8: Sean Davis Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming Is Causing a Global Increase in Hurricane Intensity
• November 15: Brian Seok Crutzen, Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to Resolve a Policy Dilemma?
• November 22: (Fall Break)
• November 29: Pete DeCarlo Szidat et al, Contributions of fossil fuel, biomass-burning, and biogenic emissions to carbonaceous aerosols in Zurich as traced by ¹⁴C
• December 6: Florence Bocquet Boundary layer ozone dynamics and air-snow interactions at Summit, Greenland
• December 13: (Last day of classes Dec 15)

Suggestion list of "classic papers" for possible topics

Farman, J. C., B. G. Gardiner, et al. (1985). "Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClO_x/NO_x interaction." Nature 315(6016): 207-210.

Molina, M. J. and F. S. Rowland (1974). "Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atomc-atalysed destruction of ozone." Nature 249(5460): 810-812.

Planetary wave propagation / teleconnections:

Cumulus parameterization (NOT SCIENCE OF COURSE)

Arakawa, A. and W. H. Schubert (1974), Interaction of a Cumulus Cloud Ensemble with the Large-Scale Environment, Part I, J. Atmos. Sci., 31, 674-701.

Lorenz, E. N. (1963), Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow, J. Atmos. Sci., 20, 130-141.

Blackburn, M. (1985), Interpretation of Ageostrophic Winds and Implications for Jet Stream Maintenance, J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 2604-2620.

Charney, J. G. (1948), On the scale of atmospheric motions, Geof. Publ., 17, 1-17.

Eady, E.T. 1949. Long waves and cyclone waves. Tellus, 1, 33-52.

Emanuel, K.A. 1988. Toward a general theory of hurricanes. American Scientist, 76, 370-379.

Hoskins, B. J. (1975). "The Geostrophic Momentum Approximation and the Semi-Geostrophic Equations." J. Atmos. Sci. 32(2): 233–242.

Hoskins, B.J. 1982. The mathematical theory of frontogenesis. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech, 14, 131-151.

Hoskins, B. J. and D. J. Karoly (1981). "The Steady Linear Response of a Spherical Atmosphere to Thermal and Orographic Forcing." J. Atmos. Sci. 38(6): 1179–1196.

Lorenz, E.N. 1960. Energy and numerical weather prediction. Tellus, 12, 364-373.

Phillips, N.A., 1963. Geostrophic motion. Rev. Geophys. 1, 123-176.

Phillips, N.A., 1956. The general circulation of the atmosphere: A numerical experiment. Quart. J. Roy. Meterol. Soc, 82, 123-164.

Remote sensing of aerosols:

Holben, B. N., T. I. Eck, I. Slutsker, D. Tanre, J. P. Buis, A. Setzer, E. Vermote, J. A. Regan, Y. J. Kaufman, T. Nakajima, F. Lavenu, I. Janowiak and A. Smirov (1998), AERONET-A Federated Instrument Network and Data Archive for Aerosol Characterization, Remote Sens. Environ., 66, 1-16.

Basic dynamics:

Listing of many: LIST

HOSKINS BJ, DRAGHICI I, DAVIES HC NEW LOOK AT OMEGA-EQUATION Q J ROY METEOR SOC 104 (439): 31-38 1978 (introduces Q vectors)

HOSKINS BJ THE MATHEMATICAL-THEORY OF FRONTOGENESIS ANNU REV FLUID MECH 14: 131-151 1982

HOSKINS BJ, MCINTYRE ME, ROBERTSON AW ON THE USE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ISENTROPIC POTENTIAL VORTICITY MAPS, Q J ROY METEOR SOC 111 (470): 877-946 OCT 1985

Surface flux/evapotranspiration:

ADVECTION-ARIDITY APPROACH TO ESTIMATE ACTUAL REGIONAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, BRUTSAERT W, STRICKER H, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 15 (2): 443-450 1979

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